Surname: Bradley Forename(s): Francis Ernest b. April 1862. d. 3 September 1933. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, mason, barrister, and county court judge. Educated at London University and
Victoria College, Manchester. Admitted to Gray’s Inn in 1885. Father was Nathaniel
Bradley. Married twice, to Bessie Mary Smith and then to Elsie Reynolds. Member of
the Manchester Literary Club. Author of books on company law. Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for the poem “Parted,” published on 21 June 1884, gives his address
as 51 Chapman St, Manchester (NLS Dep 341/369). The Chambers’s Journal Authors’ Book entry for 12 May 1884 adds “Hume” to the address (NLS Dep 341/295).
Biographical information: Papers of the Manchester Literary Club, vol. 12, 1886; Joseph Foster, The Register of Admissions to Gray’s Inn, 1521-1889, Hansard Publishing Union, 1889, p. 495; “Francis Ernest Bradley (1862-1933),” Ancestry. (AC)